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Advertisements for the Presentation Number, 7 lines for 10s., and Is. per line for all above. EDINBURGH REVIEW, No. CXXXVIII. Advertisemelits intended for the forthcoming No. of the Edinburgh Review are requested to be forwarded to the Publishers on or before Thursday, the 20th instant. Bills and Prospectusei by Saturday, the 22d. 39, Paternoster-row, Dec. 12, 1838. The publication of THE SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this dos at 10 minutes past Three o' Clock. .c~~'` ~~ ~~ s r 1CI) e :L~;-„ ~`-~' ~~ WITH WHICH THE " TRUE SUN " IS NOW INCORPORATED. LONDON WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 12, 1838 We have great satisfaction in announcing that Sir HERBERT JENNER has this day dismissed the citation of MARY WOOLFREY before the Court of Arches, with costs. A full report of his elaborate judgment will be found in another part of The Sun. We congratu late the country on clerical intolerance having received one blow, and we hope it is but the commencement of a succession of blows which will finally annihilate it entirely. Yesterday the consolidation of the General and Twopenny Post receiving houses took place. This is a vast improvement on the old system, and a saving to the public both of time and expense. Formerly, per sons wishing to post a letter for the General Post office had often to walk a quarter of a mile, or put it into the Twopenny Post-office, increasing the charge twopence, or pay the postman one penny for each letter after five o'clock. At present all the receivinry houses are placed on the same footing except three, one in Oxford -street, another in Cornhill, and a third at Charing-cross, where post-paid letters cannot be received, Every day furnishes new illustrations of the urgent oecessity of that Reform in the Corporation of the C:tv of London which the Association established for that i , , urpose is so zealously labouring to obtain. The c omm , n Council and the Subordinate Committees act exactly to if they were exempt from all contr ou l o f a constituent body, and the petitions of the citizens, if not treated with open contempt, are shuffled off on some plausible pretext, receiving just so much attention as it suits the interests of parties to whom the petitions are prutented, to bestow. A glaring instance of this neglect of the inte rests of the City by the Corporation people occur red a few weeks ago, in the case of a petition pre sented to the Common Council, by Mr. CHARLES PEARSON, signed by no fewer than 4,012 citizens, in which the petitioners pointed out the grievances which they suffered from the present monopoly of gas in the City, and prayed that competition might be per mitted. The petition was handed over to the Commit tee of Sewers, and what did these gentlemen do, but 'bar their doors against their constituents, as well as against the press, and after a mock deliberation, de clare that there was not sufficient evidence to warrant eoMpliance with the prayer of the petition ? Wi,•at this Committee of Sewers may consider -" sufficient evidence" in such a case, it is not for us to %Itemise, as men often measure the quantum of evi dence required, by a standard which varies with iti bearing on themselves or their friends but this we know, that the two gas Companies which <upply the City have combined to raise the price of the comipodity to the consumer, each Company confining itself ei2- tirely to its own district, and never interfering where Ole pipes of the other have been laid down. This, though not an ostensible, is an actual, and at the same time a disgraceful monopoly. The result of this state of things is, that the gas supplied by these Companies j.s charged 30 per cent. dearer to the citizens than to their other customers. It has also been agreed oetween the Companies, that they shall not supply an incoming tenant with gas, until he has paid up the arrears that may be due by the outgoing one. If these tyrannical and oppressive proceedings on the part of the monopolists of this now necessary article of con sumption, do not warrant the Common Council to permit competition, the only means of redress, we should like to know what would. Had such things taken place anywhere else, how soon we should have seen a Company start up to keep these grasping gas-makers in order ! We are happT to find that the citizens are determined not to submit to the tyranny either of the monopolists, or of their so-called revesentatives of the Sewer Com mittee. A preliminary wetting was held on Satur day, to take into consideration the mode of proceed ing best calculated to attain the object they hare in view ; and it was determined to hold simul taneous meetings in all the wards, and thus to bring whatever power the constituent bcjv may possess to bear upon their refractory representatives. The peti tioners—will it be believed—actually const3tute a ma jority ; of the gas co nsumers i n the City yet, iinw little 'attention have they b een a bl e to command I We trust that City Reform will gain a few converts by this - signal proof of the working of thing s as t h ey are. We copy from the Times of this morning a s h ort - worthy of leading articl e on the sub j ect of Russian sympathyorthy the Rebels in the Canadas, which we think for attention, tion, inasmuch as it confirms several reports to the same effect, communicated to us during the last week, but of which we took no notice, as they were not sufficiently authenticated to warrant us in givin g currency to them: _According to one report, the a gents of Russia in Paris are authorised to spare no expense in sending as many P.olish officers as possible to the United States, where arrangements are already made to secure them a high notn;nal rank in the Rebel army. Our Tory Contemporaries, as will be seen by our extracts from the Journals, have opened their fire on what they call a desecration of the Christian Sabbath, by the opening the Post-office on Sunday, while one .of them places in a strong light the anomalies of the present system. Their attack on the " Godless Go vernment," and on " the Post-office authorities," is a • shining example of the scandalous profanatio n of re ion to the most despicable party purposes of which h yp writes are not ashamed. Will the Herald tell US the' use of our State Church, with its vast re scourec if :it have not preserved us fro* God less Government ? Will the pious old lady explain what she means by the phrase " Christian Sabbath," seeing that all the Roman Catholics who are Christians, in all times have kept and keep the Sabbath differently from the Protestant puritans. If CHRIST had never done anything but pray and preach on the Sabbath, and had never prayed and preached on any other day, there might be some warrant for our puritans asserting that nothing else but praying and preaching shall take place on that day ; but his example warrants all men in doing all kinds of good works on the Sabbath, instead of devoting it to teach the law in the syna gogue, as was done by the Jews, and they have no warrant for their practices and demands but their own devices and interests. A more delectable specimen of untrue cant we never read, cut from a sermon, than that which we borrow from the Herald. The ga d returns show that in Europe there is no people who are so criminal as the English ; the Clergy and tin! Legislature continually reiterate a similar assertion, and continually demand, or continually place restri;_!- tions on the people to prevent or check their cri minality, and yet we are told by the Herald that England has been hallowed by being the resting place of the ark of pure Christianity. Let the Herald and its friends beware of cant, lest they suggest the conclu sion that crimes are the result of their " pure Chris tianity." The readers of The Sun are aware, from the ar ticle which appears on Saturdays, entitled " Price of Sugar," intended to show the effects of the duty now levied on that article, to give a bounty to rise 'West India planters, that the bounty given to the same gen tlemen on their coffee is also ►ery considerable. At present the general duty on coffee is ls. 3d. On the produce of, and imported from, a British possession in America or the East Indies, it is 6d. ; on the produce of other places imported from a British possession within the limits of the Company's Charter, 9d. ; if imported from places within the same limits, and not a British possession, Is. Our readers must also be aware that an application has lately been made by the coffee merchants and dealers to the Board of Trade, to reduce the duty on West India coffee from 6d. to and on coffee imported from the East Indies from 9d. and ls. to 6,1. The ground on which they chiefly rested their appli cation was the insufficiency of the supply of coffee pay ing the lowest duty, and the consequent tax which thiit insufficiency enables the favoured grower of this coffee to levy on all the coffee-drinkers. The application to the Board of Trade could not he backed by the latter, who are accustomed rather to address the masters of the Board, and who, when they learn, as they will by an article which appears in The Sun (Money and City News), that the Board has refused to recommend any such reduction, will perhaps petition Parliament against being annually taxed to the extent of 600,0001. per annum for the advantage of the West India planters. The average price of West India coffee is 115 s. per cwt., of St. Do mingo 425. ; the difference is 735., which makes a difference of 7d. per lb. in the price of coffee, caused by the discriminating duty. We believe that it is really more, and that were there no discriminating duty on coffee, the price of the whole would fall more than 7d.; but taking the fall at 6d., as there are upwards of twenty-four million pounds of coffee annually consumed, the tax levied on coffee drinkers for the advantage of the West India planters is at least 600,0001. per annum. We hare not, indeed, the smallest reason to expect that the coffee-drinkers, any more than the coal and corn consumers, will bestir themselves to protect their own interests. The people are so accustomed to taxation, that they could not live were the burden removed. They are like a butcher's hack, which cannot go without a boy and his basket. Taxation is as necessary, apparently, to their comfort, as an ill-tempered wife is to that of a husband, whose life would be vapid unless it were spiced by a daily quarrel. The Parliament too, and statesmen of all parties, have so long indulged their penchant for ex tracting money from .he pockets of the people, that they can no more forego the indulgence than the spoiled lady can give up the customary employment of her tongue. To take it from us, for the public service, ample as are its dimensions, including all the trappings of royalty, pensions, &c., does not satisfy them ; they must also tax us for the behoof of the West Indians, the landlords, the Bank proprietors, the coal owners, the city jobbers, &c. &c.; and the people, camel-like, kneel contentedly down, and appear to feel their hap piness increase in proportion as they are able to bear all the loads their masters lay on them. We have no hopes, therefore, that they will bestir themselves to obtain a reduction of the duties on coffee—thow* that would cherish temperance, check drunkenness, and prevent crime—any more than they hare bestirred themselves to get rid of the duties on coals—though that would make the home of the poor comfortable— or to get rid of the Corn-laws, though that would fill their bellies, encourage industry, and make them con tented and glad ; and as we have no hope of our tax, and cold, and starvation-loving people bestirring them selves on such vulgar matters, we make up our minds to submit, and pay a large tribute to the otherwise wealthy landlords, the planters, and money -jobbers. Imagination has more charms for our poetical people than sober reality, and they eagerly pursue the dazzling, but distant and evanescent, beauties of the Charter, and disregard relief from taxation. Though we have often heard the charge made, we weie not aware of the fact, that the Con ductors of certain infamous publications, called Two penny Newspapers, extort money from timid, nervous people, by threatening to accuse them of the most abominable crimes unless hush-money is paid. The The proceedings at Hatton-garden Police-office, yes terday, however, leave no doubt on the subject. The practice appears to be to send a threatening letter, or put an announcement in the Paper, that in a succeed ing :number, certain 5 ‘ indisputable truths" respecting Mr. So and So will appear, Q.OO. unless a bribe is for warded, a tissue of falsehoods, mixed up occasionally with some truth, is forthwith published fur the gratifica ion of the malignant public. From twenty to thirty t housand of some of these Papers, it is said, are sold weekly, and what with bribes, large sale, and no stamp duty, the profits from this illegal and disgraceful traffic :oust be very considerable. If the readers were the lower classes, and the publications r es pe c t a bl e , th ere might be some excuse for the Stamp-office winking at the evasion of the law, but when they are bought, chiefly by persons in tolerable or good circumstances, and the articles are of an immoral tendency, and often destructive of domestic peace, there is not one good reason for s h ow i ng th em m erc y. The late Newspaper cie ctust inde e d'b e flefective if it cannot reach either I disreputable author, or the printer, publisher, or seller. The :Madrid o morni Journals -------.4------ of th e 3d in s t., received this of fang, are fill ed cts, rel a ti ve to with dreamy spec u : i Vions, instead and the progr ess o f thethe state of faction s in the capital, civil war in th e Peninsula. y e t The Cabinet is as wholly co m p ose d o f G enera l AL AIX, who in vain seeks colleagues to colleagu e s among t h e f ew public men who belong the tag-rag an d bob il of the Court circle that composeth the C amar ill a , In the Chamber of Deputies the address was s till under considera tion, wit h hardly a hop e, ofS elce mihdst for of i :e . s t a r b y e i Ig o So rnuc more than voted b ef ore Christmas I the promptitude of S p anish p atrioti sm in 0 civil war. Lord WILLIAM HERVE the English Lega tion at Madrid, had l e f t that eny or London, on leave of absence, LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DA Y•) DEAL, DEC. 11.—Wind N. W., hazy, with light airs.— Sailed this morning the Charles Brooke, Bell, for St. Vin cent's: Red Post, Gibbons, for Oporto. Her Majesty's store ship Buffalo remains. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 11.—Wind N. W. to N. N. E., light airs and fine.—Arrived the Agenoria, Dy.r, from Bristol ; Grace, Grant, from Sunderland; Isabella, Doutt), from ditto. Sailed the Buckinghamshire, Moore, for South Aus tralia; Jane, Darley, for Rotterdam; Orus, Bell, for 'Sun derland. PLYMOUTH, Dic. 10.—Wind N. N. W., very moderate. FALMOUTH, DEC. 9 and 10.—Wind N. E. to N., light breezes and fine.—Arrived the John, Seoleur, from Jersey ; Fortitude, Nichols, from Limerick ; Providence, Harokey, from Waterford ; Elve packet, Cross, from Cork ; Samuel Davey , Mary, Quick, from Cork. Sailed the Royal Tar, ;steamer), Lewis, for Vigo, Oporto, and Lisbon, Sz.c. LIVERPOOL, OCT. 11. Wind N. N. W., rnodera te.—Ar. rived the Boyne, from St. Petersburgh. Arrived off port the Sarah Birkitt, from Nassau, sailed Nov. 3 ; and Dec. 2, in lat. 46 long. 27 to 22, experienced a severe gale, lost jolly. boat, foreyard, bullwarks, &c. Sailed the Schyryd, for Trieste ; James Cooke, Follins, for Bordeaux ; Lynx Sharp, Mc Fee, for ditto ; Trenaitha, Tontin, for Genoa ; Gardner, Jackson,: for Africa; Anna Jophia, Butcher, for Alexandretta ; Hopeton, Morris, for Jamaica. DUBLIN, Dsc. 10.--Arrived the Adelaide, Godfred, from London. SHIELDS, Dsc. 11.—Arrived the Ann Eliza and Jane, from Dalhousie. HULL, DEC. 13. —Arrived the Petrel Doratha, from Kiel and Esther Felander, from Stockholm. RAMSGATN, Duc. 11.—Arrived off Port, the Solid, Back_ land, for Maarseilles. YARMOUTH, DEC. 10.—The Adventure, Sini, of South Shields, got on the Cross Sand this morning, but is expected to be got off. WHITBY, DEC. 11.—Arrived the Satellite, llill, from St. Petersburgh. NEWRY, DEC. 9.—Arrived the Quintin Leitch, Robinson, from Miramicbi. CORK, DEC. 10.—Sailed the Thomas, Seably, for Algiers. CLYDE, DEC. 11.—Arrived the Scipio, Campbell, from Demerara. Sailed the Dalkeith, Smith, for Lisbon. HARWICH, DEC. 10. —The Swift, Buxton, from London, to Yarmouth, got on the Gunfleet Sand yesterday morning, but was assisted off, after throwing past of her cargo overboard, and proceeded. ALISOROUGH, DEC. I —Arrived off port, the Victor, droller, from Stettin. LOWESTOFFE, DEC. 10.—Arrived the Radical, Anderson, from St. Peteriburgh ' • Margaret, Gowan, from Gothenburgh ; Shule, Fordyce, from Limerick. GUERNSEY, DEC. 9.—Arrived the Rose, Avery, Seville. JERSEY, DEC. 9.—Arrived the Venus, Hamon, from New foundland ; part of cargo thrown overboard. BRISTOL, Dsc. 11.—Arrived the Abbotsford, Hicks, from St. Petersburgh. SwANsae, DEC. 9.—Arrived off the Dement, Harper, from Antigua. KINGSTON, DEC. 10.—The wreck of a schooner, with top mast above water, was passed on the 7th inst., Carlingford light, bearing N.E. by N., by the Cato, Rowe, arrived at this port. The Louisa, for London, (coal laden), was on shore on the Shipwash Sand, this morning, but came off without assistance, and proceeded. LOCHENDAHL, DEC. 7.—Arrived the William the Fourth, Stirling, from Quebec. HONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY (THIS DAY), TWELVE O'CLOCK. Arrival this morning—French mail. No ship letters. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET OF TUESDAT.--The de mand for Cotton to-day has been extremely limited, with out, however, any decline in prices. The sales are 2,000 bags ; particulars not worth reporting. Consols, which closed yesterday at 934 94 for the Ac count, opened at the above price this morning, with little business doing as yet ; Reduced, 923 93 ; Exchequer Bills, 65 63 ; Indian Bonds, 61 63 ; Bank Stock, 2024 2034 ; India Stock for opening 2614 2624. In the Foreign Market Brazil Stock continues steady at 764 to 774. No confirmation as yet of the revolution at Bahia. Spanish Active, as they left off, 164 4 ; Portu guese, 294 304 ; Three per Cents., 194 20 ; Colombian, 264 ; Mexican, 23i ; Dutch as they closed, Two-and-a•• Half per Cents. 544 4 ; Five per Cents., 1004 4 ; Bel gian closed at 1001 1014, and continue the same. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 20234 3 India Stock :1 per Cent. Red. ....... 9•2 A, 3 2% Ditto Bonds 64 62 pin. 3 . per Cent. Cons. 4i per Cent loo%' Old Annuities 90%, Ditto Red. IO O IA % I(( New Ditto - New 3% per Cent - 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751... - New - Exch. Bills, £l,OOO ...66 64 06 pm. Bank L'ong A nnuities to expi re I Ditto... 'SOO Jan. 5, 1660 14 15-16% Ditto Small 6l 66 pin Oct. 10, 1859 — I Ditto Commercial — pm. , Jail. 5, 1860 . --I Ditto Advertised Jan. 5, 1880 — Flank Stock for Account ...... I April 5, 1880 — lndia Stock for Account Jan. 5, 1870 — I Consols for Account 93% 4 33,4 THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1838. ARCHES' 2OURT.-(THIS DAY.)I THE CASE OF THE WIDOW WOOLFREY. THE OFFICE OF THE JUDGE PROMOTED BY THE REV. JOHN BRIM'S V. MARY WOOLFREY.-JUDGMENT. Sir HIRBERT JENNaIt gave judgment to-day in this im portant case. The case had been very fully argued, upon the third Session ef the term that had just expired, and the Court thought it due to the arguments to take some time to consider of the judgment it should pronounce, and also for the purpose of locking into the authorities that had been cited in support of the views taken by the Counsel on each side. The Court would have been ready to have given judgment on the bye-day of the Term, and would have done so, but for the occasion of Counsel being elsewhere, and it being an unusual thing to deliver a judgment, espe cially in a criminal case, in the absence of the Counsel who had argued it, when the Court found that it was impossible to deliver judgment, it appointed the present, as it had the power to do under the statute, an additional Court day, for the purpose of enabling it to give judgment in so important a case. Unfortunately however, it happened on this day, as on the last, that Coun sel were absent at the Privy Council, but the Learned Judge could not now consider that as a reason for further postponing his judgment. In the present case, the office of the Judge had been promoted by the Rev. John Breeks, the vicar of the parish of Carisbrooke, in the diocese of Winchester, and the province of Canterbury, against Mary Woolfrey, for the purpose of having her ad monished and lawfully corrected in her manners and excesses, for having unduly erected a certain tombstone in the Church-yard of the parish Church of Carisbrooke, having on it an inscription contrary to the 22d Canon of the Articles of the Church of England. That was the tenor of the decree served upon Mrs. Wool frey, who had been cited from that Court under the autho rity of the Chancellor of the diocese of Winchester, in which the parish Church of Carisbrooke was situated, and without which authority that Court could not have interfered or taken cognizance of the case. The Chancel lor of the diocese having thought proper to refer the case to that Court, it had no other course to pursue but to ' accept the letter of request. It was not contended, indeed ' it was admitted, in the present case, that if the inscrip tion was of the character attributed to it in the citation, namely, contrary to the articles, and canons, and doctrines of the Church of England, it was admitted if such was its character, that no person could have a right to erect such a tombstone, as it impugned the doctrines of the Church of England. It had been further admitted, if the case was made out to be such as it was represented in the citation, the party was liable to be punished for the offence, and admonished against the excesses that had been committed. The question, therefore, which that Court was called upon to decide was, whether the inscription had been properly inscribed in the citation. The inscription was not set forth in the citation, but it was contained in the articles brought in by the party citing. The question was, whether the inscription was properly stated in the citation, because he (Sir H. Jenner) was of opinion that the offence of having erected the tombstone without consent did not arise upon the face of the citation ; the question was confined, as it appeared to him upon the citation to the legality or illegality of the inscription. Upon looking at the articles he found the inscription set forth in the second article to be—" Pray for the soul of Joseph Woolfrey," and " It is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead ;" and an addition was made on the tombstone, stating the chapter and verse from which the latter part of the in scription purported to be taken, namely, the second chapter of Maccabceus, 12,46. Now in a criminal case, it wasclear the burthen of the proof of the character and the description of the offence committed lay with the complainant. In the present case the complainant was the incumbent of the pa rish of Carisbrooke, and the question arose whether the minister of that parish was an improper person to institute proceedings of the nature of the present, for the purpose of removing that which, if truly described, was certainly a matter of scandal to religion. Now to the incumbent be longed the superintendence of the Church and the Church yard, and it was the duty of that person to see that every thing there was conducted with decency and propriety, and it was further his duty to take care that the Church and Church-yard were not made the means of disseminating doctrines inconsistent with the articles and canons of the Established Church. With these preliminary observations the Learned Judge would proceed to consider the articles brought in ; they purported to contain a statement of the law and the facts to which that law was to be applied. The first article related to the inscription on the tombstone, and was to the effect that by the 22d article of the Church of England, agreed upon by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, and the other Bishops and Clergy in Council assembled in 1562, the Catholic religion, its rites and for malities, was declared to be repugnant to the Word of God, and it then stated that the tomb or head-stone con tained doctrines against the principles of the Church of England, and that the person who had caused it to be erected ought not only to be peremptorily admonished, but punished and corrected for her excesses. The article further stated the propositions of law applicable to certain facts sup posed to exist, and those propositions had been admitted by the Learned Counsel who argued the case on the part of Mrs. Woolfrey. The 2darticle set forth thefacts, that Mary Wool frey, in 1838, erected the tombstone to the memory of her hus band, Joseph Woolfrey, and the inscriptions on that tomb stone were alleged in the article to be contrary to the Articles of the Church of England, particularly to the 22d Article. The article then went on to allege, that notice had been given to Mrs. Woolfrey to remove the stone, and it further alleged that she had refused to do so, and that Mrs. Woolfrey had admitted that she caused the stone to be erected. The next article contained a copy of the inscription, and the other articles,with the exception of the last, were merely of a formal nature. The last article prayed that Mrs. Woolfrey might be peremptorily admo nished, punished, and corrected, for her excesses. Now, the law principally relied upon as establishing the facts that the inscription on the tomb-stone was contrary to the canons and articles of the Church of England, was to be found in the 22d canon of the Council held in 1562. In Ist and 2d articles, there was a general reference made to all the other Articles and Canons and Constitu tion of the Church of England, but the principal canon relied on was that to which the Learned Judge had just adverted ; but for the purpose of supporting the present question it was right also to refer to any of the other canons, and, consequently, in the course of the arguments in the present case the 35th Article relating to the reading of the Homilies was adverted to, as were also the Articles upon Prayer, the latter of whi c h w as p ar ti cu l ar ly re li e d upon. N ow , as he (Sir H. Jenner) understood the argu ments addressed to the Court in support of the articles, it was argued that the 22d Article, in declaring the Romish doctrines of purgatory to be against the Word of God, also declared that the offering up of prayers for the dead were against that Word, because the two facts were so blended together as to render it impossible to separate them, and that therefore the inviting of passers by to pray for the dead was an illegal inscription. The point upon which the whole question turned was, whether the prayer for the dead was so connected with the Romish doctrine of purgatory as to be essentially and necessarily included in it. It might be true, and no doubt it was so, that the doctrine of purgatory included the practice of prayer for the dead ; but it did not follow that the consistency of the pro position held throughout, namely, that the prayer for the dead was consistent only with the rites of the Romish Church. if that fact were made out, there would be an end of the pre sent case, and the Court would be justified in removing the tombstone, and punishing the party who had erected it. It was to this point that the whole of the arguments of the Counsel upon each side were directed. Many authorities had been cited, according to the different views taken by Counsel, and to many of those authorities it would be ne cessary for him to advert. The Counsel had very properly abstained from entering into the theological part of the question; it would have been improper in his (SirH.Jenner's) opinion for them to have done so, and equally so on the part of the Court to take upon itself to inquire whe ther the doctrines of purgatory, as professed by the Romish Church, were proper or not, that question had been already settled, it had been decided to be repugnant to the Word of God ; such was the law, and he was bound to abide by it. Then the question was whether inviting the passers by to pray for the dead was or not prohibited by the Articles or the Canons or any other Articles of the Church, The Court could not go beyond the terms of the Articles, and must decide whether the offence was made out under the Articles. The question was shortly this— was praying for the dead involved in an d com bi ne d with the doctrine of purgatory, and with the view to the decision of that ques lion the first thing to be inquired into was what the doctrine of purgatory in the Romish Church was laid down to be by the decree of the General Council : now as far as he (Sir H. Jenner) had been able to learn it did not appear that any General Council, with respect to the doctrine of purgatory, had sat until the Council of Flo rence in 1438, and that Council had pointed out the doc trine by its decree. That was afterwards followed up by the decree of the Council of Trent in 1568. He (Sir H. Jenner) in w hat he had stated did not mean to say that the doctrine of purgatory had not been received before that time, but it would seem that it was first introduced in the 3d or 4th century ; it was at first, however, doubtfully received, and was not properly established till the papacy of Gregory VIII. The doctrine then, which was so introduced, and which was declared to be repugnant to the Word of God, by the 22d article of the canon is, that there is a place called purgatory, where the souls of the pious are tormented for a certain time, and cleansed, in order that the entrance may lay open to them in their eternal home. That seemed to be the general summary of the doctrine of purgatory, as so 4. - in those canons, and professed in sort h the P- - umish Church. Now it was able a part' ^ _• mesh doctrine that the pains of purga tory might be alleviated or shortened by the prayers of the PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. ________ __ Paid. Per Share London and Blackwall Railway 9 6 % London and Southampton (New) Railway 2O 39 London and Croydon Railway Company 2O Ditto New Scrip Manchester and Birmingham Railway lO Do. Do. Extension Anti Dryrot Company l7t§ Ditto Scrip 17% 3% National Provincial Bank of England (New) lO 101,4 COURSE OF EXCHANGE YESTERDAY. 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Ditto Ditto Extension North Midland Railway 55 li;i1;,-„,r, by nia, , se:. 7_ -' doctrine which was declared by the Church of England nut to be founded on any warrants of Scripture, the question, as he had before said, was, whether prayer for the dead came under the same condemnation. The first argument that suggested itself a g ai ns t th e s upposition that prayer lor the dead was included in the condemnation of the Romish doctrine of purgatory was, that praying for the dead was a practice of an earlier date than the introduction of the doc trine of purgatory ; for it clearly appeared that the prac tice of praying for the dead prevailed amongst the earlier, if not amongst the very earliest Christians—that in offer ing these prayers for the dead, therefore, it was per fectly clear they had at that time no notion of the Romish doctrine of purgatory. Whatever notion there might have been amongst some few of them, of a purgatory at the last day, the Romish doctrine of purgatory at that time did not enter into their lives. It would be a useless waste of time if the Court were to travel through all the authorities which might be cited, not only to prove the prevalence of this practice of praying for the dead, long antecedent to the introduction of purgatory, but also that the prayers offered by the primitve Christians for the soul of the departed, were offered with a different intention from those who profess the Romish religion. The object of the latter prayer was to release from the pains of purgatory the souls of those who had not been completely purged frotn their sins in this life. The object of the former, as is stated by all the commentators and writers, was that the souls might have rest and quiet in the interval to elapse between their death and the resurrection at the last day ; and that at the last day they might receive the perfect con solation of bliss. But, certainly, according to the opinions of all the writers upon the subject, there was no proof that the prayers had reference to the state of suffering in which the souls of the pious were supposed to be. With reference to this point, it might be right to state one or two passages upon the subject, and the first of these to which he would advert was that of Bishop Taylor, in his " Di;- suasive against Popery." In discussing the subject, he en ters into the question as to the foundation upon which the Romish doctrine of purgatory is supposed to rest. All the Court could do was to look into these authoroties fer the purpose of seeing in what view these authors considered the practice of praying for the dead—their view, certainly, not forming the law of the case, for the law of the case could only be taken from the Articles of the Church and its Canons—but showing the views which learned Divines and others had taken of the subject of praying for the dead as connected with the Romish doctrine of purgatory. Dr. Taylor, after going at some length into the subject, said, that such general prayers for the dead as he had referred to, the Church of England never did condemn, by any express article—the Church expressly condemned the doctrine of purgatory, and consequently all the prayers for the dead relating to it. The Bishop cited several authorities in sup port of this opinion. Archbishop Usher, in reference to this point, said, " that prayer for the dead, as it is used by the Church of Rome, doth necessarily suppose purgatory ; but, on the other side, it is admitted that purgatory doth not necessarily infer prayers for the dead. The Romanists take it for granted that purgatory and prayer for the dead is so closely linked together, that the one does necessarily follow the other ; but however they may link their prayers with their purgatory they shall never be able to show that the commemoration of prayers for the dead used by the National Church had no relation to their pur gatory ; and, whatever the prayers of the primitive Christians, be asssured that Popish prayers they were not." Speaking of the primary intention with which prayers for the dead were offered by their fathers, he said they offered prayers of thanksgiving for the blessed estate on which the deceased had entered, that God would forego his sins, keep him from hell, and place him in the kingdom of heaven, which, however well meant at first, proved an occasion, in the course of time, of confirming them in divers habits. To this passage he added another :—" Thair prayers were offered that the dead might rest in peace." And that these prayers had reference to the general resur rection, he proved by the examples which he pro duced from the different authors who had written on the subject. These all tended to show his opinion of the motives with which prayers for the dead were offered up by the primitive Christians, having no connection whatever with the Romish doctrine of purgatory, and conveying the idea .that those for whom the prayers were offered up were subject to ao suffering during the interval which elapsed between their death and the last day. These authorities all showed that prayers for the dead had no necessary con nection with the doctrine of purgatory—that it could not have any, was clear from the circemstance of its practice having been so long antecedent to the other. But whatever might have been the case with respect to the practice of praying for the dead in early ages, it had been contended that in later times the Church of England had taken a different view of the subject ; and that, in refe - eence to what passed at the earlier part of the Refermation and subse quently, that though in the first instance prayers for the dead were not considered to be contrary to the principles of the Christian religion, yet that they had, by the manner in which they had been treated in later periods, been consi dered as opposed to those principles and to the doctrines of the Church ; and this had been principally relied upon by reference to the alterations which had taken place at differ ent times in the Liturgy prepared for the use of the Church. Now, the earliest part of the practice referred to was in the prayers of Henry VIII., namely, the three which had been set forth by him upon the subject of the Burial of the Dead and the Communion Service ; and, without going particu larly into the circumstances and prayers which were made use of on these several occasions, iW the Communion Ser vice as well as the Burial of the Dead, it was sufficient to state that there was no doubt that there were prayers for the dead immediately and expressly inserted ; and this was continued until the alteration took place in these public services in the reign of Edward VI. It was also clear that it was in the book referred to, namely, the " Formula of Faith," in the time of Henry VIII., in 1536, 1.537, and 1543, prayers for the dead wers considered to be a pious and proper work ; and it was clear, from the very manner in which these prayers were set forth, that the prayers supposed to be referred to in the Maccabees had no connexion with purgatory, because in the same article it was expressly declared that pur gatory was not an article received by the Church ; and at the Reformation they disclaimed the doctrine of purga tory, though they mentioned it to be a pious and charitable work to offer up prayers for the dead. So continued the law until the 2d and 3d of Edward VI., and it is certainly true that the Prayer Book, which was compiled for the public use of the Church, had been prepared by persons of very great eminence and learning, who were called to gether by the King for the purpose of taking into consi deration the alterations necessary to be made in the public service of the Church, in consequence of the progress which had been made towards the reformation of the established religion. Now, it is not very im material to see the manner in which the first Book of Prayer was compiled. He, did not know that he could refer to anything more satisfactory than the Act of Par liament by which that book was established—the 2d and 3d of Edward VI., C. 1, entitled " An Act for the Uni formity of Service and the Administration of Sacraments throughout the Realm," the recital of which Act showed the view with which the persons were assembled together, and the alterations they were to consider, and the prin ciples upon which they were to proceed, in compiling the Book of Common Prayer for the public use of the Church. The recital stated that his Majesty had appointed the Archbishop of Canterbury, and certain of the most learned and discreet Bishops, having as well an eye to the most pure Christian religion taught by the Scriptures, as to the usage in the primitive Christian Church, to make one meet and right order of Common Prayer and administration of the sacrament to be used in this realm of England and Wales. They accordingly proceeded to draw up the form of prayer which is contained in the first Prayer Book of Edward VI. in reference to those principles upon which they were directed to proceed. Now, in this Prayer Book of Edward VI., prayers for the dead are still to be used ; they were in some degree altered from those which had been set forth in those of Henry VIII., but they were still used, and, therefore, it must be considered that those who were called on to compile this form of prayar, that prayer for the dead was not necessarily connected with the doc trine of purgatory. Now, the first Prayer Book of Edward VI. was afterwards revised, and in those parts of the cere monies which refer to the Communion Service, as well as .those in the Burial Service, were omitted those passages which related to prayers for the dead ; and it had been urged from this circumstance that they wc,re omitted because the persons who were concerned in revising the first prayer-book were of opinion they were not consistent with the doctrines of the Church as then esta blished ; and, therefore, that it there is no express prohibi tion of praying for the (load, still by implication, the Church has expressed its opinion that the practice was not consistent with the doctrine of the Church. But it still seemed proper to consider whether there were no means by which the Court could arrive at the conclusion—what was the prin ciple upon which these prayers for the dead were no longer considered as proper to be used in the Church. Various authors had been referred to in snpport of the proposi tion, that it was in consequence of the belief that these prayers were all consistent with the principles of the Church of England, that the omissions were made. Amongst writers on the book of Common Prayer, Wheat ley, Shepherd and Nicholls were cited. Many of them stated that undoubtedly the Church did consider that these prayers prayers were no longer proper to be used, as b e i ng • 00 1 : 1 418. tent with the do`_',:eines of the Chvacit of England, '2.7ne established ; t ut they all agreed i n stat i ng there that had been no express prohibition of the use of prayers for the dead, and therefore it must be taken to ha a prohibition by necessary implication. Now, in looking into the number , of historians upon the subject of the alt erat i eu which took I LI,Se pra . , erg for toe a; au it, the second Prayer Book of Edward VI., were principally acceded to at the instance of Calvin and Luther ; and, though this had been made in so me d egree a matter o f di spute an d difference 0 1 opinion between different writers on the subject, still it r:eerned to be the general opinion that it was at their instance that these prayers were omitted ; but he (Sir H. Jenner) had not been able to trace in these writers th, precise grounds upon whi,•i: the omission w,:s ; b ut there was authority enoug h to s h ow that at least the surren der of this p art o f t h e alteration and revision of the first Prayer B oo k, o f t h e order then( in set forth, was not very inconsi s t ent w i t h the op i nion of the majority of persons so employed, upon t h e ground that they were not inconsisten t with the doctrines of the Church of England. He had looked into the Act by which the second Prayer Book was esta blished—the sth and 6th of Edward VI., c. 1., which was also entitled 6. An Act. for Uniformity of Service and Ad ministration o f th e S acrament throughout the Realm ;" and the recital i n th at A ct, wh i ch must be considered as tae sense of the Legislature, was stated, that whereas there, had been a very go dl y or d er set forth by the authority of Parliament, agreea bl y to , t h e W ord of God and the usage o f the Primitive Church, &c. (using the words in the previous Act by whi c h t h e B oo k o f C ommon Prayer was esta blished, which included the prayers for the dead , both in the Communion and Burial Service) ; yet notwithstanding this, numbers of persons abstained from coming to church, &c., and it then went on to provide the means for compelling attendance at the par ish church to hear Divine Service, according to the order set forth in the Book of Common Prayer. The fifth section stated the grounds on which this alteration had been made, and the recital introducing this enactment Was' that whereas there had arisen, in the use and exer cise of the common service of the Church, divers doubts as to the fashion and ministration of the same, rather by the curiosity of the Minister, &c., than by sul worthy cause, therefore, for the more plain direction thereof, &c., it then proceeded with the enactment by which the second Book of Prayer was substituted for the first ; expressly declaring that the first order, which wr . , declared to h ave b een a go dl y order, agreeably to the W'or° of God and the Primitive Church, was still considered to deserve that character, and that the alteration had. bee° made simply from doubt which had arisen, still ' a ffirming' the Book of Prayer which was first set fortl- 4 , It Wa s , true that the Act o f P ar li amen t was a f terward repea l ed by the Ist of Q ueen M ary, b ut t h at A ct was again repea l e d r t in the I s t o f Eli za b et h , an d the .sth and 6th o f Edward was afterward s re - esta bli s h e d as the law. Now, it seeme d that, up to this period of time, there were certainly pot any express prohibitions of praying for the dead nor Ws' there, as far as he was able to learn, any notion nrecessir rily implying a belief in the doctrine of porgatory, though in consequence of some persons being professors of t he Romish religi o n h av i ng ta k en an advantage of this practice as an argument to support their doctrine of pun y / tory, it was thought proper and convenient that th e foro l ,° ,l prayer should be altered, and that those prayers which eou` by possibility be urged in support of the Roman Catholic doctrine of purgatory should be omitted in the pu b service, it not being enjoined by any warrants of Scriptu re that prayer should be used for the dead, but there being pO, prohibition in any o f th e art i c l es or canons of the Chur ch' The whole of the authorities seemed to go no further thau this—the disco uragement o f the use of prayers for the d e ad , and not the prohibition of them; and that no p ar t of the 22d article was vi o l a t e d b y t h e use of prayer for the deal, and consequently no i nv i tat i on to offer up prayers for the de g couldbe consid ere d asa v i o l at i on of that article of the Churc h' The ground on which the Church consented to the alters' tion being made, and to the omission of those praYe re ; was perhaps better stated by Mr. Palmer, is the Orig ine k Liturges, than i n any ot h er b ook he bad occasion to foo, into. That th a t l earne d author entered into the grool 5 d of the disuse o f th ose prayers for the dead, aid consider es that the Church of England was no where found to esPr e a disapprobati on o f t h e cont i nuance of the prayers for the dead, although it had discouraged the use of th e ; - ; When the c us t om o f pray i ng for the dead began in , "" Christian Chu rc h h a d never b een ascertained. I t beea° 1 e 4 a matter of so me i n t erest an d importance to ascerta i n f reasons for the omission of these prayers in the Liturgy d. the Engli s h Ch urc h f or t h e f i rst time in the reign of it ward the 6th. Some persons, he said, might conceive at was contrary to the revealed Word of God, but the gr e Divines of th e Ch urc h of England had not take., 1. , this ground, an d the Chrch of En g l an d h a d never forrnii i condemned prayer for the dead. The Learned ,fudge t ea t other passages from the work, showing the opinio'a which,. la'f.rned writer entertained of the reasons on which theßeo — A , era omitted prayer for the dead, and he thought these groat, satisfactorily shewed, where there was no express or form a .. l declaration, that these prayers were ne,t consistent with the principles principles of the Church of England, or the Christian fast He was, therefore, of opinion, thai. so far as the 22d article' which had been principally relied on, was concerned, ther e had been no violation of it, so as to call for the p o nislunt of the party by Ecclesiastical censure, for causing t u : inscription which was recited in the articles to have bet' placed on the tomb -stone. The 22d article appeared to h' ° :. to be confined simply to the reprobation of the doctriol of purgatory, th e i nvocat i on of saints, and the adoration. e: images, but did not prohibit prayers for the dead, unless s 0 far as pr a y ers f or t h e d ea d are shown necessarily to 11 '` 01 a belief in th e R om i s h doctrine of purgatory. F ' es , the authorities to which he had had means of a•cee to having trusted very little indeed to his own vies' , of the subject, he considered it was not shown to be yie! a ;,; o o of the 22d article of the Church to cause the i n ocriP - g n complained of to be placed on the stone. But alth°llde it might be that there was no violation of the 22d * ru be by which the doctrine of purgatory was pronounced "' her e repugnant to the W or d o f G od. Yet it was said ten was another arti c l e o f the Church which bad "'re violated by th e i nscr i ption in question, and 011 ference had accordiTagly been made to the be article of th e Ch urch of England, though it he',' t he been specified in the article which had been given L e k o f cause, and which was to the effect that the 2d 13°° , 03 er Homilies contained wholsome doctrines, as did the for ; Book of H om ili es , set f orth i n the time of Edward Yes', th ere f ore , t h ey were adjudged to be read in eh urcb , of by Ministers ; an d N o . 7 , of the Homilies trea ted e , prayer. It was conten d e d t h at i n that Homily t h e P i e , tice tice of prayin g f or th e d ea d was considered to be an err 0 00d ous doctrine, and th at as the Homilies were dir e of to be read in the churches, for the edificatio n at the people, th e Ch urc h di d necessarily infer gha t t ot' doctrine was an erroneous doctrine, and consequent'tnrch it was forbidd en , b y necessary i mplication, by thu %of of England. If th at were so, i t would seem extraerilvioeS that in the f ace o f th e Homilies, so many lerArned, ", t'ne should have f a ll en i nto t h e error of belitving tna. the, Church of England had not prohibited, prayers r des ee dead, but had m ere ly di scouraged them ; but he eon fl? toive it still mor e ex t raor di nary, that, considering the ex"ploce and violent di scuss i ons and disputes that had take " ace° with respect t o th ese questions, there should not ba v- i , bofr , any express di rec ti on against that pr ac ti c e. If 1 100 been th e i ntent i on of the ' Church to have fur"-there it altogether, surely it m i g h t h ave b een expecte d that eor Would have been a direct express prohibition of t h joill tinuance of that practice. The great object of the ' f iat was to show the Romish doctrine of purgatory a es ti in conformity with the 22d article, a vain an d pa" invention not warranted by Scripture. There was I/ a the of the Homily as it appeared to him which declared ja w practice of praying for the dead was unlawful. It oe l bois did appear to be the intention of the composer of f r ' be Homilies, to discourrtg e the practice of praying tbs t dead, but in what part of the Homilies was it deels-r e e t hese practice was unlawful. According to the composer ni sco uld r Homilies, it was certain that the prayers of the tiviu r f t i n o 0 ' have no effect in diminishing or alleviating the e0e. 61 1 tbs t the dead, an d, th ere f ore, i t was thought be Ater to ern,bloriti' which wa s no t en j o i ned by any Sexiptural au' t jar rather than to run the risk of having it said that th lisau; ti6ed pur ga t ory , b y t h ose whose interest it was to t : g lan," late, if th e y cou ld , t h e doctrine, of the Church of I no seu.' to that o f th e Church wh.bse pri n ciples they 1 3° 0 00 That I take to be the real, meaning of the conlp'os er ing th e c i homily. But supposiw g it was otherwise, suPP ° , e he de' composer of the holraly thought that prayers for ee' were unlawful in themselves, it was not therefore t° the cessarily infr-red that the Church of England followed e re writer of those homilies in every part of the doetri° /wall° Q.,*.ated. That appeared to be the opinion of BishoP,h-Livoif and Bishop Burnett : therefore he could not hell' °f tbe_ that whatever was the intention of the framers of t h e Articles, that if had been the opinion of the frame?: ra yiati Articles and of the Church that the practice of d i) t° the for the dead was an illegal practice, and onPese authority word of God, that they would, on the t bo Scripture, have taken care to have expressly declared e. sense of the p ropr i ety of the discontinunce of to tbo n a o i o prayers, an d have expressed themselves so as to ' no t t o doubt w h a t ever as to what was their opinion in tesP „, th e that pr ac ti ce. As far as he had been able .'co practice and the history of the Articles, and tY,e 01 ) , T t his; the Ch urc h on the subject, it had merely anaotrated that they did not encourage, but rather d:rscrJuragF e P_i n the for the dead —that they had prohibited th . em :Atogeth r o of; public service ot . the Church, but not because thel_ r t h dered them to be inconsistent with the, doctrinesriueiee Church. So he collected from the books of thee u lL en t be professors of Christianity. On eels part of the . 5 0 '4 4 0 0. was also of opinion there hat; not been a violatice;orge4, of the Articles of the Cfrarch. But it had also b that the person by whom th e t om b s tone had been i tt eas and who had caused th e i nscr ipti o n to be placed .oppos b' e upoo a Rom an C a th o li c , an d th ere f ore th a t it must he; to the invitation to pr a y f or th e d ea d h a d necessa rily referZ ura h of doctrine of purgatory as sanc ti one d by the